Frugal mother-of-three cooks up a Christmas banquet for just £3.75 per HEAD (and shares her cut-price festive dishes to feed your family on a budget)

The mother-of-three has whipped up a delicious Christmas meal for £3.75 pp

She has also shared some of her top seasonal dishes including turkey pie

Here Claire reveals how she manages to feed her family and keep costs down

A thrifty mum has whipped up a Christmas banquet for just £3.75 per person – with enough leftovers to feed her family for two weeks.

Savvy shopper Claire Walton, 32, from Leek in Staffordshire, dished up the festive feast with all the trimmings for herself, her three children and partner for just £18.75, which works out at £3.75 per head.

She served up a family-sized turkey with a large tray of roasted winter vegetables, stuffing balls, pigs in blankets and a generous helping of turkey gravy.

From the leftovers, Claire cooked up enough meals to feed her family for two weeks using up store cupboard ingredients and family staples to cook up dishes including a Sausage Stir Fry which cost just 37p per person and a Bacon and Potato Layer Bake at 60p per person.

Mum of three Claire Walton, pictured, dished up Christmas dinner with all the trimmings for herself, her three children and partner for just £18.75, which works out at £3.75 per head

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She also dished up a post-Christmas favourite, Turkey Tikka Masala for £1.07 per person and a delicious Turkey Pie at £1.14.

Claire, 32, has been a savvy food shopper since having her daughter Amber two years ago. She slashed her weekly food bill from £120 to just £50 per week, leaving her with an extra £280 each month to save away or spend on treats.

She ditched branded products for cheaper own brand alternatives and swapped her regular supermarket run for shopping around at discount retailers for the best bargain.

Claire began meal planning every week, even factoring in when any leftovers would be used up.

Claire’s Christmas dinner cost breakdown

Claire Walton’s turkey Christmas dinner, pictured, works out at just £3.75 per head

Feeds five

Turkey breast meat £4.28

Turkey gravy £1.23

10 Pigs in Blankets £8.01

12 Sage and Onion Stuffing Balls £2.43

Winter veg pack x 2 (including parsnips, carrots, onion) £2.40

1 kg potatoes 40p

TOTAL £18.75 for 5 / £3.75 per head

Claire’s bolognese-inspired sausage meat spaghetti, pictured, requires just three ingredients and works out at 20p per head according to the mother-of-three’s calculations

Claire’s delicious turkey pie, pictured, needs just four ingredients including the side portion of vegetables. It comes to £1.14 per head and contains gravy granules

Perfect for Christmas morning! Claire’s tasty bacon and egg muffin, pictured, is one of the cheapest recipes in her itinerary and comes to just £2.20 for five people / 36p per head

She cooks everything from scratch and says the savings she’s made means her family can enjoy treats throughout the year.

Claire said: ‘Three children means Christmas is a costly time of year so looking closely at how much things cost, even the big festive meal, is a really important part of my budgeting.

‘Christmas Day is a busy one for me – I want to spend it with the children, so all the prep happens in our house the night before.

‘Everyone mucks in peeling and chopping veg and getting the meat prepped and ready to put in the oven the next morning.’

Mum-of-three Claire, pictured with her family, has ditched branded products for cheaper own brand alternatives and swapped her regular supermarket run for shopping around at discount retailers for the best bargain

When it comes to Christmas food shopping, Claire buys all her meat in bulk in order to keep costs down (pictured: her luxury turkey hamper from healthy food retailer MuscleFood)

Claire cooked up the tasty feast and kept her costs low by shopping with online healthy food retailers including MuscleFood.com, buying the £60 luxury turkey hamper to save cash.

Claire recalled: ‘My frugal shopping started when Amber, who’s now two, was born. We needed to cut back on our spending and looking at our food shopping was th obvious way to do it.

‘I cut our weekly bill by almost £70 straight away – simply by cooking from scratch, shopping around and swapping branded for own brand.’

For more on Claire and her money saving visit: instagram.com/clairewillcleanit